Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

Activity

You added a note
7 years, 8 months ago

when I try to write in my "other" voice inspo/interiority

I don't know how to enter the debate without leaving everything else behind-the birds outside my window, my grief over Janice, just myself as a person sitting here in stocking feet, a little bit chilly because the windows are open, and thinking about going to the bathroom. But not going yet.

***…

MISC Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins
You edited a note
7 years, 8 months ago

the public-private dichotomy topic/gender-roles topic/literary-theory

The dichotomy drawn here is false-and not false. I mean in reality there's no split. It's the same person who feels and who discourses about epistemology. The problem is that you can't talk about your private life in the course of doing your professional work. You have to pretend that epistemology,…

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins
You added a note
7 years, 8 months ago

the public-private dichotomy topic/gender-roles topic/literary-theory

The dichotomy drawn here is false-and not false. I mean in reality there's no split. It's the same person who feels and who discourses about epistemology. The problem is that you can't talk about your private life in the course of doing your professional work. You have to pretend that epistemology,…

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins
You added a note
7 years, 8 months ago

leaking and listing to the side like an old ship inspo/interiority

[...] I woke up on January second, perhaps the dullest and most obligated day of the whole year, a living garbage pile topped by a discarded Christmas tree, and couldn’t breathe through my face. I went to the gym because I didn’t believe myself, and it took me nearly a week of dragging my body arou…

Griefbacon sick day by Helena Fitzgerald
You added a note
7 years, 8 months ago

the human willingness to break ourselves inspo/anti-capitalism

[...] Colds are a referendum on how kind we can be to ourselves, how much we can let ourselves get away with, how small we can allow ourselves to be. They are also reminders of the large and overwhelming power of the systems that want us to be none of these things.

Every day there is some news …

sick day by Helena Fitzgerald